What's Worse And Better With Venezuelan Food Shortages, PTSD And Phobia Treatment, And Colorado's Marijuana

    Nicolas Maduro won the Venezuelan presidency with only a margin of
1.5 percent of the votes last April. Now his socialist party has emerged
from city council and mayor elections all around Venezuela with more socialists elected. Obviously the Venezuelans aren't learning that socialism is the problem with the economy. Inflation is 54% which is the most in the Americas. Maduro is disregarding property rights and arresting businesspeople on trumped up charges. He is following Lenin's socialist playbook. Maduro has seized 2,300 properties. There are food shortages, even in milk for babies. We agree with the prediction that Venezuela will be the America's Zimbabwe. Maduro has tasted blood. He will want more and will increase his terrorism on his own people.
    What's better is that researchers in the Netherlands have been able to rub out disturbing memories. This could portend a huge and breathtaking cure for PTSD and phobias. What happened was that the researchers told patients in words and pictures two disturbing stories. Immediately after that, the scientists used electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on the patients. After that, what the patients were able to remember of the stories was no more than what plain guessing would yield. Naturally, the researchers are looking for a less drastic means than ECT and are planning to use the propranolol, a drug that interferes with your memory, on fifty PTSD patients. This is a what's better that could be huge.
    The opening of marijuana shops on January 1 went smoothly in Colorado. There were already medical marijuana shops operating, and these stores simply put up new signs. The transition to legal marijuana shopping was orderly. Even though Colorado is breaking federal law, it is doubtful that Obama will arrest anyone as these people are his voters. It is appears that Americans are waiting for the accrual of evidence about the effects of Colorado's legalization of pot. Washington state will be legalizing marijuana later this year.
    These commentaries are based upon news from the Wall Street Journal, America's most trustworthy national newspaper.
    Peter Nickerson. Neither a Democrat nor a Republican, but an Evidentist. We didn't serve in Vietnam so this is our fight for America.